Improvement in stove-polish



" "NIIED STATES PATEN FFIES.

ALBERT SIMMONS, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO CHARLES TALLMAGE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVE-POLISH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,736, dated July 11, 1876; application filed April 15, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT SIMMoNs, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New Yorl'r, have im'ented an Improved Stove- Polish and I do hereby declare that the following description of the ingredients and their mode of compounding forms a full, clear, and exact specification.

The object of my invention is, and it consists in, the production of a stove-polish of a paste-like consistence, which shall easily adhere to either a cold or heater stove, 81.0., receive the highest attainable polish with the least expenditure of manual labor, and always preserve its pasty consistence, to be ready for use when w'anted.

Common stove-polish, as sold in cakes, &c., which must be dissolved in, or mixed with, water previous to its application, is objectionable, because it does not contain sufficient adhesive matter to stick to the article to be polished, and, when rubbed with a brush, broom, or the like, will (lust considerably, thus causing some of the greatest annoyances to housekeepers-via, a dulllooking stove and dirty floors, carpets, &c.

In order to overcome these objections, I have compounded my improved stove-polish, which will adhere well to either a cold or hotstove, and instantly receive a very high luster with but very little rubbing. It has a paste-like consistency, which it will preserve during any length of time, and is more economical than any other stove-polish with which I am acquainted.

To prepare my stove-polish, take seven pounds of plumbago, one-half pound of lampblack, one-half pound of bees-wax, one-half ounce of glycerine, and enough hard or soft soap to make a paste. Melt the soap over a slow fire, and stir in the ingredients before named, and when thoroughly incorporated in the soap remove to cool.

As a matter of course, the plumbago performs the principal office in my compoundthat of giving luster to the stove, &c.while the lamp-blacking serves to give ajet-black appearance to the polished article. I mix the soap with these ingredients to enable them to adhere to the article, while the bees-wax serves to fill up the pores of the metal, to pr duce a smoother surface and retain the gloss. The glycerine is added to preserve the consistency of the compound in a moist or rather pliable state.

To apply the compound, take a moist cloth, woolen being preferable, .and daub the same with the polish, and apply by rubbing over the surface of the article to be polished. Now,

take a dry woolen cloth, and gently rub over the polish, when the same will instantly take a very bright luster. The cloth may be preserved for future use, and will thereby save much of the polish.

It will be observed that my compound is far more economical than the common stovepolish, since it will not dust off when applied, and therefore a less quantity of the samewill reach as far as, if not farther than, the common polish.

In compounding mypolish it is not necessary that the quantities as mentioned should be strictly adhered to. Nor is the addition of bees-wax absolutely does not perform any function as far as polish is concerned.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim The herein-described stove-polish, having a paste-like coi'isistency, compounded of plumbago, soap, lamp-black, and glycerine, substantially as hcreinbefore stated.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed niy seal this 12th day of April, 1876, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT SIMMONS. Witnesses:

IVIIOHAEL J. STARK, FRANK H1RscH.

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